Word: nonpartisans
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...Washington Alben Barkley announced that he was going to work for the National Broadcasting Co. as a television commentator. His program, a Sunday evening discussion of current topics called Meet the Veep, will be nonpartisan, said Barkley, and he will not have a sponsor unless he can find one in keeping with the dignity of his former office. "This won't be the limit of my activities for the next few years," warned the 75-year-old ex-Vice President...
...good deal of credit for the 1952 showing goes to a spectacular get-out-the-vote drive sparked by American Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan agency. Beginning last June, the foundation (chairman: New York Banker Winthrop Aldrich; vice chairman A.F.L. President William Green) went hammer & tongs to obtain the cooperation of civic groups, broadcasters, editors, educators, cartoonists, advertisers...
...trade-school, dealing in the arts of pulpil manship and clambake arrangement, but this is hardly proper for a University of higher education. Any shift to a denominational school whould be equally unsatisfactory, since Divinity's one great value, its one advantage over more renowned theological schools, is its nonpartisan status...
...result, Taft will get considerable labor support, while many a conservative who looks upon a "liberal" Republican as an apostate will vote for Lausche. Some Republicans have never forgiven the younger Taft for helping to break the Republican machine's power in Cincinnati in 1924, when the nonpartisan Charter movement established the city manager form of government. Charlie Taft is a pleasant, hardworking campaigner, but his speeches are not striking fire in this campaign...
...hearing, involving 66 witnesses and thousands of documents, the McCarran committee gave its answer. A 226-page report, packed with fascinating quotations from witnesses and documentary exhibits, boiled down to a crushing verdict against the I.P.R.: "The subcommittee concludes . . . that the I.P.R. has been, in general, neither objective nor nonpartisan, and concludes further that, at least since the mid-1930s, the net effect of the I.P.R. activities on United States public opinion has been pro-Communist and proSoviet, and has frequently and repeatedly been such as to serve international Communist, Chinese Communist, and Soviet interests, and to subvert the interests...